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National Republican., 1887-04-18


VNTANTED-THREE GOOD Statesmen:
w those having q knowledge of the retail
business, either dry goods, hats. clothing, or
shoe. Only those that know how to handle
customers need apply, and must be young
men well known In the city. Also. three good
boys IA years old. Apply at SMITHS Cloth
ing House, 924 eth st. N. w. 2.1S
WY TANTED-AN EXPERIENCED WHITE
w. nurse. under 30, to take care Of two
children, eldest years, youngest months; TO
publican Office, giving experience and refer
ences. 2
National Republican., 1887-04-18

ENoR RENT-FURNISHED, TWO FRONT
Il rooms on I'd, also front hall room on 81
floor; rent low to permanents; pleasant street:
no children; bath room ON same floor; ZIG 18th
st., bet. g and II sts 7.lS
National Republican., 1887-04-18

TNOR RENT-TwO UNFURNIsnED COM
II municating rooms on I'd floor, suitable for
housekeeping, IL desired, or suitable for
housekeeping; private family. Apply at 75i
10th st, n. w. 7.1S
National Republican., 1887-04-18
WANrED---MIsCE1EANEoUs,
For .RENT---ROOMS

8O- Wants, For Sale, For Rent, Lost and Found,
and Personal, four lines or less only % cents for
one insertion: 80 cents for three.
National Republican., 1887-04-18
For RENT-MIsOELIANEOUs

HD- Wants, For Sale, For Rent, Lostond Fb,tad,
and Personal, four lines or less, only % cents Jor
one insertion; so cents for three.
National Republican., 1887-04-18

Most every little "cotton-baclt"
cIothier claims to manufacture all his
goods, but 1t is the "claim," gentle
reader, that he manufactures, NOT THE
CLOTHING. Verify. verify, this is a
wicked world, and the older we get
the more we learn-the more we realize
the truth of this little axiom.
National Republican., 1887-04-18

fittings are not Uhat they seem."
Common printed goods, shoddy, and
cotton warps are made so cleverly
all wool, and often look finer, and this
is still another reason why we should
bear in mind that
National Republican., 1887-04-18
Saks s&Company
THE PEOPLES CLoTHIERs,
800 to 3OS Seventh Street.
.AUCTION SALEs:

DUNCANsoN BROS, AUCTIoNEERs.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26
Rye rs a SOiling CrOu.

Results from experiments conducted at
the Pennsylvania State College Of Agricul-
tural grounds, in relation to the value Of
rye as forage crop for soiling, make it
appear: /. That so far as the chemical
analysis can determine, soiling rye is much
inferior to pasture grass as an exclusive
feed. 2. Fed with some heterogeneous SUBJ
stance, as malt sprouts, oil cake, etc, it
may in many instances be more profitable
on account of its much greater yield. 3.
Quite old soling rye closely resembles the
mean of first and second crop hay in COM
position, but is juicier, and has yield
which is greater by one-half. 4. High
manuring produces a crop Of better nutri-
tive quality, and in very much greater
quantity, and no distinction was shown
by the cattle fed against the ranker
growth
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26

1t is a remarkable fact, that, in men
tioning the various things which possess
manurial value and ought, therefore, to
be saved in the compost heaps or else.
where, account is seldom taken Of soap
suds. In point of fact, soap suds from
the laundry and bath room, also all dish
water from the kitchen, are Of too mnch
value to growing plants to be wasted. A
part of the virtue Of wood ashes, which
every one acknowledges TO be an excellent
fertilizer, is taken from them by teaching,
and the Iye, when combined with the fats
and oils used in soap making and the
grease and dirt extracted 10y soap suds
from various articles cleansed with it,
must of necessity have considerable value
as fertilizer.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26
9ai1YRsE eagle
BY RAIL TO THE OxUS.
Trade by Way of the Trans-Caspian Rail
road.A Romantic Chapter.

Trade by Way of the Trans-Caspian Rail.
road-A Romantic Chapter.
The poets of Asia have sung for cent
nries of the beauty and fruitfulness of the
Zarafchan valley. The fact that the en-
virons of Samarcand, Bokhara, and Khiva
are among the most fertile in the world
has counted for little in their development,
for almost painless deserts separate them
from the lands that would gladly buy
their produce. Steam cars however,
have come at last to supersede the costly
camel caravans that, since the car over
powered the Khanates, have often been
sent to the Russian frontier.
When it was announced a few weeks
ago that the Trans Caspian railroad had
reached the Amu-Daria at Chardjui, the
telegraph from Khiva and Bokhara at
once reported that a number of caravans
were loading with silks, leather, furs, car
pets and wool, which they would take to
Chardjui en- route for Europe. Mr.. Lans-
dell told us two years ago that central
Asian cotton was Of fine quality and could
be raised in enormous quantities. It now
appears that as soon as it was positively
known that the railroad would be adj
vanced to the Amu-Daria the planting OF
cotton in Bokhara was very sensibly aug
mented. Thus the pulse beats of western
commerce are beginning to be felt in the
remoter regions of the Mohammedan
world, reviyifying countries long dormant
that in the age Of Alexander the Great
were the seat of an advanced and power
full civilization.
The ruins still exist of those great canals
that centuries ago led the waters of the
Murghab throughout the Merv oasis, fer
tilizing the soil and fitting it to be the
abiding place of large and fOurishing
population. Since the railroad reached
Merry the Turcomans there have begun the
work of cleaning out and restoring these
old works of irrigation, and the day is rap
idly coming when ancient Merv will lose
the sad and arid aspect that now FREEDOM
mates in all its borders. The railroad
that Gen. Annenkoff pushed forward
through pillows of sand and treeless des-
ert will be the means of restoring to Merv
the verdure and fertility she once pos
seSSed.
The history of this railroad enterprise
which is kindling the spirit of the western
world amid the ruins of dead civiliZa-
ton of the far east, is destined to make
one of the most interesting and romantic
chapters in the story Of modern progress.
New York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26
breeding Pure Breeds.

At recent public meeting in Massa-
chusetts, O. b. Hadwen, Of Worcester,
an extensive breeder of Jersey cattle,
made the remark that ''the time may
have gone by for breeding pure breeds,
and has come when cows will be sold on
their merits Mr.. Hadwen admitted
that he had been sadly disappointed in
the stock he had bought, basing his eXpec-
tations on the purity of the blood. He
has introduced Guernsey blood into his
herd, and with such promise of good re-
suits that he is beginning to favor stock
having mingling of blood in its veins.
He finds that the English breeders, with a
much larger experience than we have had
IN this country, have for a long while adj
vocated an occasional cross TO improve
their stock
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26

Every farmer understands the value Of
bones as Il fertilizer, but when one has not
a mill AT hand in which to crush or grind
them their preparation becomes an obsta-
Gle. There is one method of saving bones
in small amounts which should not be
overlooked. 1t is to keep barrel of lye
convenient, into which all the refuse bones
should be dropped. The result is that
phosphate of potash viii be formed,
which, unlike phosphate of lime, is solu-
bic in matter, making one Of the most
valuable fertilizers known.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26
mate Objects Gone Crazy.

seem to you that sometimes in
jsctS almost become possessed
delight in making Your life q
Ike window sash for instance.
G-n one of these to so on for a
without behaving il any way
,han a first class window sash
7 Yet suddenly, on clear, fine
IN there was not enough wind
Il scatter the dirt in the street,
,iking and grooming in the most
= Same way with window shut
cr,iinarily have a permanent at
Tor the turn buckle, yot sudden
- a moments notice, they will
divorce without the slightest
20 smashing and banging about
they had gone crazy. And bed
article Of furniture that above
enc would fancy grave and Dig
have, however, known them to
creaking in the middle Of the
was simply deafening. -Phila-
II.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26

+ AS 20 IiIas intelligent comprehension ana
following of an artiste's efforts, that is
stimulus and inspiration and the life of
art, it is not manifested by the Washing
ton audience. 1t applauds mechanically
when the curtain falls, but never inter
rupts or follows the last note of an aria
with wild and irrepressible burst of ap.
plause. Even the young dancers in the
kirmess complained that the audiences
were cold. and that they feared that some.
thing was going wrong, from the awful
silence of the Observation-Disclosures Letter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26

As rule, all things else being equal,
physicians would rather encounter small
pox than scarlet fever or diphtheria, the
death rate in the first named being less
than the last two.-Brooklyn Eagle
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-26

Hello, Tom, give light; where been?
Been Crown Point Bob old fellow did you know that
addition residence locations IN the city?
Drove it finished half way
along boots trains
inside That brings fellow face
with certainty that quick the wheels turn along
property will double in value
adjacent which
has equal advantages 400 Douglas
Avenue about this
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
An Oriental Morning PRAYER

The Sultan, writes Olive Harper,
stands erect with his face to the EAST
and his feet on his praying carpet, and
placing the thumbs of each hand 'Tinder
each ear, he spreads his hands like
wings, lifting his ears upward as if to
catch any sound from heaven, and with
his hands in this position must turn irst
to the right and spit then to the left,
and then dropping his hands to his side
hold them rigid while he bends his
knee and then his whole body forward
from his knees until his forehead touches
the floor three times. He repeats his
prayer in this position and gets upon his
feet again without touching his hands
to the floor and again makes wings of
his ears and again spits night and left
and his prayer is over. Every Turk be-
lieves that he has two attendant spirits
one good and one evil. and as he is not
sure which side the emissary of shaitan
has pre-empted he spits at both to make
sure.
After his prayer the Sultan frequently
goes out into his garden before break
fast and if he does, no person must re.
main IN sight unless he calls him back
servants, officers and slaves
all disappear as quickly as they possibly
can if they see him in the distance, as it
is considered a proclamation to disturb
his early morning reflections.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
The American WOman's Gait

Why is it that so few American women
walk well, you wonder. Is it lacing or
bustles or what that spoils their gait
And as you study this problem another
presents itself quite worthy of pedal
science. Terrible as the charge is. it
seems none the less true that nearly all
southern women "toe in" Ten ladies'
all young, from Baltimore and New Or
leans, have crossed the sands. One of
them has planted her dainty feet properly,
angling them away from each other as
they fall. Another has approached this,
but the rcmlining eight have either set
their feet in a straight line ahead or
pointed them a little inward. Two of
them have displayed an ungainly over
reaching hip movement. Lewis Carroll
found the only word to describe it
when, in recounting the Staying of the
jabberwock, he made the word "gal-
Those two unquestionably
''galumph." But they have faces that
could carry worse faults than that, and
Of foot education they take no thought
Narragansett Cor. New York
Times. l
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

An American gentleman who has re-
Gently Travelled through Japan, says that
the japanese will in few years be the
greatest railroad builders of the world:
Asyet there are only $40 miles of railroad
In Japan, but many roads are projected.
The japanese are good railroad patrons:
Tor even when they have no business to
transact they will ride back and forth
on the railroad until they have spent
their last cent. And the beggars in the
large towns nearly always spend the
money which they get on a railroad
trip.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

trouble in fitting this reed, but thinks
that in q weeks time Mr.. Wilson can
talk as well Is he ever could, though his
tone will be changed, that, of course,
taking the tone and pitch of the reed.
Mr.. Wilson will not have to learn to
talk again, but doubtless will surprise
himself when his new voice gets into
good working order. New reeds can be
put in at any time that Mr.. Wilson'S
voice fails him, but one reed properly
taken care of should last him the re-
of his natural life. He has
stood his sufferings well, and when he
returns home in a few days he will be
enabled to attend to his business,
though it is thought that his friends
won't recognize his voice over the tee-
phone. For delicacy of operation and
the remarkable results attained this OPP
Grafton has never been equaled.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
A Mans Wants

Some thoughtless people may imas;
that looking out for ones self involvss n
one else's interests. But human hi,
were made for society, and with v,,.
which require many providers.
A man in the East, where they do ~.
require as much clothing as in cold,'
climates, gave up all worldly concr,,
and retired to wood, where he bu,.
hut and lived in it. His only cloth;.,
was piece of cloth which he wore rou,s
his waist. But, as luck would hay. :
rats were plentiful in the wood, 50 !.
had to keep cat. The cat reou;,,a
milk to keep it, so a COW had to be ken,
The COW required tending, so cowho,
was employed. The boy required hons.
to live in, so house was built for him
To look after the house maid had "a !.
engaged. To provide company for II.
maid a few more houses had to be bn;N
and people invited to live in. them. In
this manner a little township sprang m
The man said: "The farther We seek IA
90 from the world and its cares III:
more they multiply
This man must have soon sickened of
his passion for solitude; for if he had
really wanted to be alone he could. have
succeeded better than he did. But tia
parable is rough lesson in political
economy, showing that solitude i,
against the law of naturs.-[Good
Cheer.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
Paper for Business Correspondence

1t is great pity that business men
cannot adopt uniform size of paper ior
their correspondence. As it is now.
there are so many different sizes and
shapes that filing and docketing letters
is extremely difficult and annoying, and
letter file looks like sample book
from a paper mill. Lovers and such
have right to exhaust their ingenuity
in queer and fanclful shapes and sizes
of paper on which to indite sonnets ia
their mistress eyebrow or pour out the
fantasies of the tender passion, but bust.
ness men, to whom time is money.
should adopt uniform size of letter
paper and one of note paper, and then
folding and indorsing and filing letters
would be greatly simplihed. [San Fran.
cisco Chronicle
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

As profession the practice of medi.
cine seems to be pretty lucrative, at least
IN large cities. The late Miss Wolf used
topay $50, 600 year to her medical at.
tendant. The late Mrs. A. T. Stewart
PAID an average of So, 900 to three
physicians. Mrs. c. Vanderbilt paws
her doctor $40, 900 a year and Mrs. Will
nam Astor pays $4,000. Mrs. Ellis. an
American lady, physician to the Queen
Oh Ccrea, receives sl5, 200 year. Alta
meeting of the New York County Medi-
cal Society two white-haircd physicians
with whom reporter talked agreed in
saying that at least one-half the practic-
ing physicians Of New York received
incomes OF 5000 year and inward.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
The White TOnaz.

The white topaz found near Pixies
Peak is almost equal in value to the dia-
mond, says G. F. Hobert in the Globe.
Democrat. Not many people know this;
but l found topaz on the banks of tie
Platte River this summer and sent il
to lapidary in New York to have il
cut 1t weighed s2s 'carats, and tbs
lapidary sent back word that he woulz
give me $50 for it. l refused the offer,
and investigation disclosed the fact tbs
if l had sold the stone it would hav.
found its way into some of the larae
jewelry stores Of the metropolis, where,
cut into innumerable small stones, i.
would have been offered for sale a.
genuine diamonds Clear white topa:
is worth 50 a carat. A three or fou.
carat, well-cut stone, will cost you $40
or $40. The white topaz has ,tRs
brilliancy and hardness of the diamond,
and differs from it only in being .soms-
what transparent. Its angle of refrac-
ton differs only slightly from that of
the diamond. 1t is rare, too.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
"BeanerieS."

Beanery is word, presumably of Bos.
tonian origin, signifying a cheap restau
rant. New York City, which can chal
lenge the world to comparison, for ele-
gance, excellence and variety, in res
taurants of the first-class, offers also a
peculiarly rich study in beaneries. Some
few OF these latter furnish such a good,
wholesome, homely repast that their
patrons can easily imagine themselves
living on the fat of New England !;
Others run to gaudy but unsubstantial
pastry; still others, on the strength of a
stuffed COW and an assortment of watery.
iarinaceous gruels, set up as "dairies;"
but with the majority bewildering va
riety of cheap dishes is the first consid-
Grafton, and a lightning-like dispatch of
service the second. You can order a
dinner of half-a-dozen plats for twenty
cents, and if you haven't reached the
dessert in five minutes, your uncon-
scionable dawdling attracts attention.
In the Bowery or Chatham street res
taurants like the Lion Topper" the
Grand Republic" the "Jim
Fisk" the ''Boss Tweed"
or the ''Grover Cleveland" an
able-bodied waiter will take dozen
orders, and return with the forty or fifty
plates piled up and balanced on his arms,
neck, shoulders, and apparently on his
ears, in the time q Delmonico waiter
would consume in handing you the
menu. These bcanery walters are a Pc
culiar class. Their bearing Is a mixture
of the despotic dignity of the Car of all
the Russias and the swagger OF the
Whyo tough" They have an argot,
or slang, peculiar to their "pcIfesh," to
which the placards and bills of fare of
the beaneries do not furnish key. Thus
when an uninitiated patron orders, for
instance, plate of griddle-cakes, cup
OF coffee with milk, plate of hash and
baked potato, he is astounded to hear
1t bawled out by the waiter in the fol- |
lowing terms: 'Gimme a stock O
wheats. a cup O. coffee on clutches, an
insult to a square meal. and paral yzed
Mick, " Frank Leslie's.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

The new dynamite gun, recently tested
by United States authorizes, bid fair to
create revolution in modern gunnery.
An iron tube contains a fifty-pound
charge of dynamite, and the latter can
be safely delivered against the side of
ship at the distance of one mile, shaking
or wrecking anything contrived by
human hands. OF what avail, asks the
Cultivator are the iron-clad navies of the
world against the dynamite gun9
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
The Sphinx OF the Sea.

Captain E. V. eager, of the Cromwell
Line steamship Louisiana, reports that
in crossing the Gulf Stream off Hatteras,
recently, he found no current, with. the
water of peculiar green color. After
passing tie straits of Florida into the
Gulf of Mexico, from the Tortugas to
the mouth of the Mississippi River be
had strong southeast current with an
unusual amount of gulf weeds. Here is
an offset to the reports of strong cur
rents reported In the Gulf Stream some
weeks ago, and it looks as if the ocean
river were engaged In some strange
freak. The Gulf Stream is the sphinx
of the sea, and its riddles. apparently
have not yet been rightly read,-- Argo-
naut.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

In 1878 capital punishment, which had
been abolished in Iowa, was re-estab-
lished, and it was provided that the
jury should decide in murder cases
whether or not the death penalty should
be paid, but that no convicted person
should be executed until at least one
years confinement in the penitentiary.
A wife murderer who was recently con.
victed is the first person condemned to
death in the state under the new law.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

The new. the universal language
known as Volapuk, may never come in.
to general use, but two gentlemen who
have had the privilege of hearing il
spoken cmphatically testify to its ire.
sistible melody. One says, SO "LondoL
Figaro reports, that it sounds "like
double Dutch spoken by a Choctaw In.
dian suff ring from a chronic croup.r
while the other thinks that it breaks
upon the ravished ear like the music
made by Welchman trying to cough
in modern Greek"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

The potato bug made two simultaneous
appearances in Germany this year, one
in Saxony and one in Hanover. The
German Government at once had men at
work, who carefully picked all the bugs
and larvae off the plants. The stems of
the vines were then cut off and placed
In baskets lined with sacking, which
We're thoroughly soaked in benzine oil
ana buried deep in tie .rouni. After
tins the'land was pIowe5 IL or IA inches
deep and well narrowed and the surface
PieNeu over Tor any insects that might
DE on Ii. Finally the land was sat
urated with benzine oil. In one case
eight acres and in the other three.
quarters of an acre had to be treated in
this way.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

The estimated corn crop of 1887 in
this country is about 1900, 600, 600
bushels. The seven corn surplus states,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,
Kansas and Nebraska, have during the
last seven years produced an average
within a small fraction of 1000, 900, 900
bushels annually. This year all these
states have suffered severely from
drought.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

The Texas Live Stock Journal saws
the general average in shrinkage of
steer going from Texas to Chicago is
100 pounds. The state furnishes an av-
erage of 400, 600 steers, which makes a
shrinkagc of 40, 900, 600 pounds, or, as
the average weight of steer is $50
pounds, A., 0j9 head.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24

The question as to what is the exact
mechanical equivalent of heat has long
puzzled engineers. The latest expert
ments show that 1 pound of water raised
i degree Fahrenheit is equal to 1 pound
lifted 169 feet.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-12-24
A Plausible Theory

Old Mrs. Bently Gn an art gallery
reading the warning: These are valu-
able Old Masters and must not be
souched.w - whats that fer, dye
s'pose"
Old Mr.. Bently-- -'T guess the paint
on 'em amt dry yet.---[Siftings.